Bottle-cap opener.



No. 795,330. PATENTED JULY 25, 1905. H. S. BREWINGTON & H. L.FULENWIDER.

BOTTLE CAP OPENER.

APPLICATION rmm we. 22, 1904.

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No. 795,330. "PATBNTED JULY 25,1905. H. s. BREWINGTON & H. L.FULENWIDER.

BOTTLE GAP OPENER. APPLIGATIOK run we. 22, 1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. BREI/VINGTON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AND HENRY L. FUL-ENWIDER, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNORS TO NATIONAL CORK AND SEALCOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

BOTTLE-CAP OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905.

Application filed August 22, 1904. Serial No. 221,779-

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY S. BREWING- TON, residing at Baltimore city,State of Maryland, and HENRY L. FULENWIDER, residing at the city ofWVilmington, in the county of Newcastle, State of Delaware, citizens ofthe United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle-Cap Openers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in bottle-cap openers, theobject being to provide a simple and inexpensive device especiall yadapted to remove caps from bottles and jars, and its construction issuch that it may be either cast in a single piece or cut from sheetmetal or other suitable material.

With the foregoing object in view our invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations of parts such as will bemore fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective, showingthe application of the opener. Fig. 2 is a modification. Fig. 3 is asectional view through the center of the form shown in Fig 2. Figs. 4and 5 are modifications showing the provision of a point for destroyingthe cap during its removal from the bottle, and Figs. 6 to 13 aremodifications.

Referring to Fig. 1, which may be said to be the preferred construction,A represents the head, and B the handle, a part being broken away. Thehead isprovided with a central opcningC, adapted to receive a portion ofthe cap D in the position shown in Fig. 1. In this form there are fourprojections l, 2, 3, and I in the opening C. Two of these projections 1and 2 are preferably angular and adapted to rest upon the top of thecap, while projections 3 and 4: are rounded and adapted to take underthe lower edge or flange on the opposite side of the cap, as shown. Whenin this position, it is simply necessary to raise the handle in order tolift and remove the cap.

In Fig. 2 a form of opener is shown very closely resembling thatillustrated in Fig. 1, excepting that the projections 1 and 2 arerounded instead of being angular, with the result that this form ofopener may be applied with either end upon the upper surface of the cap,or, in other words, as shown in Fig. 1 or the reverse, with theprojections 1 and 2 beneath the edge or flange of the cap and theremaining two projections on top of the cap, and when so placed the capis removed by pressing down on the handle instead of lifting up, as inthe form shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4 a projection 5 is provided which is adapted to engage the topof the cap and penetrate it when the latter is being removed, wherebythe cap is destroyed so that it cannot be used again. In Fig. 5 asimilar construction is illustrated except that the projections 6 and 7are angular instead of rounded, as in Fig. 4:. In Fig. 6 the projectionsare all angular.

In Fig. 7 a sharp point ff is provided for penetrating the cap, thelower edge of the cap at an opposite point, being engaged by thestraight convergent edges 8 8. In Fig. 10 a somewhat similar form isillustrated, the projection 5 penetrating the cap while the jaw 10 takesunder the lower edge to lift it. In Fig. 12 the reverse is shown, thepoint 5 being located at the inner side of the opening or at the endtoward the handle and the jaw 10 at the opposite end, the operation ofthis opener being the reverse of that shown in Fig. 10.

In Figs. 8 and 9 several angular projections, as at 12 12, are shown forengaging both the top of the cap and the lower edge or flange of thesame, they being so arranged out of alinement that they conform to thecurvature of the cap and bottle-neck. These two forms, together withthat shown in Fig. 13, which is somewhat similar to the other two, arereversible.

In Fig. 12 a construction is shown quite similar to that illustrated inFig. 6, except that the projections are smaller, as shown at 16 16, andthe central opening is correspondingly enlarged.

Having thus fully disclosed our invention,

What We claim as new, and desire to secure by In testimony whereof Weaflix our signatures Letters Patent, is in the presence of twoWitnesses.

As an article of manufacture, an uncapping- HENRY S. BREWINGTON. toolcomprising a head having an opening HENRY L. FULENVVIDER.

formed therein, and a handle, opposite Walls of the opening eachprovided With an internally-projecting fulcruming-tooth, the same beingopposite and extending toward each other and adapted to simultaneouslyengage Witnesses as to Fulenwider: thebottle-cap the tooth and Wallsbeing all in JOHN F. NEARY,

the same plane with each other. MARY M. STIRLING.

WVitnesses as to Brewington:

E. WALTER BREWINGTON, J. ALEX. HILLEADY, J 1'.

